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riculture Avhich combines Grain and Stock in 
the proportion best adapted to soil, situation, 
and market, will be the most profitable to tbe 
end, if systematically and economically pursued. 
Some remarks on tbe winter feed of oxen may 
here be added. It is seldom profitable to keep 
any kind of farm stock on bay alone, because 
hay sells bigber, as a general rule, than other 
feed which can be used in part with equal or 
better effect. It has been asserted by good au¬ 
thority, “ that if fed in the best manner, and 
kept as warm and comfortable as could be de¬ 
sired, stock cattle require at least two per cent, 
of their live weight of good hay daily, in order 
to keep them in thriving condition,” and oxen 
at work would require still more than this.— 
Mixed food should be employed. Their relative 
nutritive value, taking Indian corn meal as the 
unit, is stated by Prof. N ash as follows :—1 lb. 
of corn meal is about equal 4 lbs. of good hay, 
6 lbs. of second 'quality hay, 8 lbs. of oat straw 
cut, 10 lbs. of carrots, and 1G lbs. of turnips.— 
We should estimate well cured corn stalks at 6 
lbs., and apples about 12 lbs. in this ratio. Re¬ 
membering that stock require a certain bulk 
of food as well as a certain amount of nutrition 
—or that concentrated nutriment alone will 
not sustain them in a healthy state—let us cater 
for them as best we may from the material on 
hand and attainable. 
It has been questioned at what age it is most 
profitable to cease the use of oxen for work, and 
to fatten them for beef. Some contend that six 
years old is the highest—that at the age of four 
to six they can be most readily and profitably 
fattened—and that at seven years or older they 
require much longer feeding to fit them for beef, 
more than enough to balance the additional 
labor performed. The general opinion has 
/placed and still places this period two years 
later, and we shall not attempt to decide the 
point at issue. Experiment alone can furnish 
the proper test. 
dTATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Of these several have already elected officers 
for 1856,—some electing at the Annual Fair, and 
others at Annual Meeting in December. We 
annex lists of officers so far as ascertained : 
Ohio. At a recent meeting of the State Board 
of Ag., Y m. H. Ladd, of Richmond, was elected 
Piesiuentj and Messrs. Green, Musgrave and 
Stedman re-elected members. L. Buttles, 
Tieasurer; J. K. Green, Rec. Secretary; G. 
Sprague, of Columbus, Cor. Secretary. 
Maryland.— Jas. T. Earle, President: J. H. 
McHenry, Cor. Sec’y ; Sam’l Sands, Baltimore, 
Rec. Sec y ; Rob’t Bowie, Treasurer. 
Iowa. Tnos. W. Claggett, President; Wm. 
Duane Wilson, of Burlingt< 
J. H. Wallace, Rec. Sec’ 
Mr. Editor :—I have observed in the Rural 
numerous statements of the profits of farming 
the cheap lands of Illinois and other parts of the 
West, showing that in some instances where 
land has not cost over five to six dollars per acre, 
the first crop has paid for it, together with all 
expenses incurred in raising and marketing the 
crop. Knowing from my own experience, and 
that of my neighbors, that this result was noth¬ 
ing unusual in the southwestern counties of Hew 
York, I have carefully looked for the statements 
of some of our farmers in those counties show¬ 
ing such to be the fact. But none such has ap¬ 
peared, leaving your readers with the impres¬ 
sion that in the West alone can land be had that 
would pay for itself the first crop—thus increas¬ 
ing the drain which, as shown by the last census, 
is fast drawing off our rural population. There 
are, it should be known, large tracts of land in 
our State offering quite as great inducements, as 
far as lowness in price and capability of bring¬ 
ing good crops are concerned, and having much 
greater facilities for getting produce to market, 
which are entirely overlooked and passed by in 
the great rush to the West. 
In 1851, I purchased a tract of land for lum¬ 
bering purposes in this town, and having taken 
the timber off part of it, and being satisfied 
from the appearance of the land that it would 
bring good crops, in 18521 cleared fourteen acres, 
from which, in the following year, I took over 
30 bushels of white Genesee wheat to the acre. 
I was so well pleased with the result of the ex¬ 
periment that I determined to try it on a larger 
scale, and last year cleared 80 acres, keeping a 
correct account of all expenses—the result of 
which is as follows : 
First cost of land and timber, $6 per acre, 80 acres, $480,00 
Do. clearing and fencing the same, $10 per acre, 800,00 
Do. 160 bushels seed wheat, $2,50 per bushel, 400,00 
Do. 20 “ timothy seed, $3,50 “ “ 70,00 
Do. 10 “ clover • “ $7,50 “ “ 75,00 
Do. putting in wheat and seeding, 218,75 
Do. new barn, 40 by 50 feet, with basement, 250,00 
Do. harvesting, threshing and sending to depot, 315,00 
AVINTERING MILCH COWS. 
A WORD on feeding cows for milk a,nd butter. 
I have experimented for the last five years upon 
different kinds of dry feed—corn, barley, oat 
and buckwheat meal, fine and coarse middlings, 
shorts and bran, wet—with cut straw, hay and 
stalks. My cows give more milk and make 
more butter, from corn meal, wet, with cut 
straw, than any other food, by from one-third 
to one-half. It will not do to feed hay or stalks 
at the same time—it fattens the cows too much. 
Try four quarts of meal and one bushel of straw, 
per day—that is, two quarts morning and night 
—the straw at noon; they will gain in flesh at 
that. It is true, as you have remarked, that 
“corn meal is bad for milk,” if it is fed with 
hay or stalks. Two quarts fed with hay or 
stalks is first rate for other cattle, or the same 
amount on straw is cheaper and better than hay 
and stalks without the meal. Stabling is indis¬ 
pensable in the above feeding.—S. B. Barnard, 
Livonia, U. Y. 
Annual Meetings of Ag. Societies. —As al¬ 
ready announced, the Fourth Annual Meeting 
of the U. S. Ag. Society is to be held at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., commencing on Wednesday next 
Jan. 9th. The Annual Meeting and Winter 
Exhibition of the FT. Y. State Ag. Society, will 
be held at the Capitol in Albany, on the 13th of 
February ensuing. Premiums (a list or synop¬ 
sis of which we shall endeavor to publish in a 
week or two,) are offered on Farms, Essays, 
Grain and Root Crops, Seeds, Dairy Products, 
Winter Fruits, tfec. The Annual Meeting of the 
Monroe Co. Ag. Society, is to be held at the 
Court House, in this city, on the 16th instant. 
jon. Cor. Secretary ; 
’y j T. Gordon, Treas- 
ui ei. Fair for 1856, at Muscatine, second 
Wednesday in Oct. 
Vermont,— Hon. F. Holbrook, of Brattleboro’, 
President; J. A. Beckwith, of Middlebury, Cor. 
Sec’y; Oiias. Cummings, Rec. Sec’y; Edw. Sey¬ 
mour, Treasurer. , 
Michigan. —-Hon. M. Shoemaker, of Jackson, 
I lesideiit; J. C. Holmes, Detroit, Secretary; 
B. Follett, Treasurer. 
Horth Carolina. —Hon. Thomas Ruffin, Presi¬ 
dent ; Thos. J. Lemay, Raleigh, Secretary; J. 
F. Hutchins, Treasurer. 
Georgia .—Southern Ag. Society.— Hon. M. A. 
Cooper, President; J. Camak, Secretary; W. 
M. D’Antiquae, Treasurer. 
Experiments in Fattening Cattle. —A late 
number of the Ohio Farmer contains an account 
from J. Sears, Esq., of Medina Co., of two years’ 
experience in fattening cattle. In 1855 he fed 
60 head of two and three year old Durham 
steers. Their average weight, when the feeding 
commenced, Dec. 1st, was 1,050 lbs. They were 
fed each an average of 15 lbs. of hay and one- 
half bushel of corn in the ear, without husking, 
until the 15th of April, when they were turned 
to grass. Corn in the morning and hay at noon. 
When sold, June 15th, their average weight 
was 1,300 lbs. 
In 1854 he fed the same number of steers, of 
the same grade, but began feeding them in the 
stable on the 20th of November. Their average 
weight at the time was 1,025 lbs. He fastened 
them with ropes, tying the master steer, and so 
on, until the stable was full. Fed each 3% 
quarts of corn meal in the morning, and then 
turned out to water, which was in the yard, for 
an hour. After tying up again, he fed 10 lbs. of 
hay to each, and the same amount at night.— 
i urned to grass, and sold at the same time as 
the first lot. Their average weight was 1,400 
lbs. Mr. Sears is of the opinion “that cattle 
which have been nicely stabled through the 
winter, will take on flesh when turned out to 
grass much faster than those which have been 
fed out of doors.” 
Farmers’ Clubs. —Mow is the time for our 
friends in the country—emphatically the Rural 
Districts—to organize Farmers’ Clubs, and have 
lectures, discussions, &c., on Agricultural sub¬ 
jects. The Town Ag. Societies and Clubs al¬ 
ready organized, will of course see that the 
spirit of progress and improvement is kept mov¬ 
ing onward during t he long winter of compara¬ 
tive leisure—that at least one evening, each 
week, is» devoted to discussions, or an address. 
We have favorable reports, recently, from seve¬ 
ral Town Clubs in various sections of Western 
Hew York. Among others, we learn that the 
Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical 
Association of Galen, Wayne Co., is aroused 
and progressing finely—holding weekly meet¬ 
ings for lectures and discussion. The Henrietta 
Society—which holds its annual meeting on the 
15th inst.—is also accelerating the motion of 
the car of improvement. We trust the members 
of these and all similar organizations will de¬ 
rive much benefit from the praiseworthy efforts 
put forth to “ improve the soil and the mind.” 
hog maiiuee for COHN 
Eds. Rural :—About the middle of May last 
H. P. Eastwood, of Cicero, planted a field of 
corn on green sward turned over in the fall, 
containing fourteen acres. Nearly every hill 
was entirely destroyed, or so badly injured by 
the wire worms and grubs that it was worthless. 
He plowed up several acres of it, and planted it 
with corn on the 8th of June, putting a shovel 
full of hog pen manure in each hill. It came 
forward rapidly, and the fall being very favora¬ 
ble for late planted corn, it matured in fine or¬ 
der 'and gave a yield estimated at fifty bushels 
to the acre. Not a worm or grub more was seen 
about the corn. Now, whether it was owing to 
the nature of the manure used, or the lateness 
of the planting, I cannot say, or whether any 
other manure would have had the same effect, 
may well be doubted. It is said, however, that 
hog manure is much the best under such cir¬ 
cumstances.- I may try the experiment more 
particularly at some future time with various 
kinds of manure.—A. E., Cicero, JS T . Y. 
The Rural for Ag. Societies’ Premiums. —If 
our memory serves us, wc have never, either 
privately or publicly—orally, by letter or in 
print—solicited Agricultural Societies to offer 
the Rural New-Yorker as premiums. On the 
contrary, our rule has been to avoid making any 
request of the kind, preferring to leave such 
patronage to those who apparently (from their 
intimations on the subject,) were in greater 
need, if not more deserving, of the same. How¬ 
ever, w T e have entertained the opinion, that many 
County and Town Societies could improve their 
lists, and benefit competing members, by sub¬ 
stituting the Rural, or some other reliable Ag¬ 
ricultural journal, for certain items (not always 
excepting money,) frequently offered. And it 
appears that the officers of many Societies in 
New York, Pennsylvania, Oliio, Michigan, Wis¬ 
consin, ifcc., think likewise, for we have recently 
received orders for a large number of copies of 
the Rural for 1856 which have been awarded as 
premiums. The St. Lawrence Co. Ag. Society 
orders fifty copies, and several other Societies, 
in this and the States above named, manifest 
their appreciation of the paper in a very liberal 
and complimentary manner. If the officers of 
other Societies, near and distant, cause this 
journal to be recognized in their Premium Lists 
for the coming Autumn, the honor will be ap¬ 
preciated—and the more so because unsolicited. 
Meantime, wo shall, as heretofore, do whatever 
we can consistently to forward the interests and 
objects of the various State, Provincial, County, 
District and Town Societies located where the 
Rural has a general circulation. 
$2,608,75 
Cr. by 1,598 bush. wheat at depot, $1,77>* per bush., 2,832,90 
Amount cleared, after paying first cost of land, 
clearing, fencing, seeding to grass, new barn, 
andall expenses of crop, $224,15 
It will be observed that the crop did not turn 
out over two-thirds as much per acre as the pre¬ 
vious crop, owing to twenty-five acres of the 
land proving so wet as almost to destroy the 
wheat on it. It will also be noticed that I Avas 
forced to pay an exorbitant price for the seed 
wheat, and the work of putting it in was done 
by hired teams at $3 per day. These, together 
with the well known fact 'that by the bad 
weather during harvest the Avheat in Southern 
New York was injured fifteen to twenty cents 
per bushel, prove that, under favorable circum¬ 
stances, the return would have been much bet¬ 
ter. When the crop Avas taken off, the clover 
was knee high on most of the land, and I have 
had some fifty head of cattle on the' field ever 
since. There is plenty of land in this town and 
the towns adjoining, within five or ten miles of 
the N. Y. and Erie railroad, equally as good as 
this land, that can be had at $2,50 to $10 per 
acre,—and the above results show, will return 
as large a dividend for an investment made up¬ 
on jit, at the far-famed prairies of Illinois or 
IoAva, having the advantage of plenty of timber, 
plenty of good Avater, of being as healthy as any 
country in the world, and of being some $10 to 
$14 per head nearer to market on every steer 
the farmer chooses to fatten. av. b. 
Canisteo, Steuben Co., N. Y., Nov. 15,1855. 
INDIAN CORN MTU AT. , 
THE POTATO BUG. 
Passing through my potatoes on the 12th of 
August last, I saAV the tops, some of them dry, 
others wilting; and on examination, discovered 
from twenty-five to fifty small bugs on a twig, 
four or five inches long. The bugs are ov r al in- 
shape, color brown and yellow, not as long as 
the cucumber bug, but wider — nearly as wide 
as long. My neighbors’ potatoes were affected 
in the same way, though they had not noticed 
the bugs. I was satisfied my potatoes would 
rot, for I had lost them eight years out of ten. 
I concluded to dig them early—did so, and my 
potatoes are good'. Those of my neighbors are 
badly rotted. I think a little lime dust put on 
the tops between showers, would be beneficial. 
—S. B. ILv-'vUid, Livonia, M. Y. 
Remarks.— These bugs may kill the vines, 
but it by no means follows that they produce 
the potato rot. The facts related rather show 
the contrary. —Eds. 
BY THE RAGGED PHILOSOPHER. 
Mr. Moore :—Last year, in the Rural, one of 
your correspondents very earnestly enforced his 
views on the neglect of Corn Meal, as a cheap 
and healthy food, prevailing to almost prohibi¬ 
tory extent in this wheat-growing country. I 
am a lover of the food which it is capable of 
producing, in all its phases, from Johnnycake and 
mush, to pones and baked and boiled puddings; 
and think the wheaten loaf is greatly improved 
by the addition of one quarter of meal if properly 
manipulated. I cannot understand the princi¬ 
ple upon which farmer’s’ families act, especially 
those that grow corn to a large extent—that they 
should make so little use of it for food, or even 
the mechanic, the laborer, and those who are 
straightened for the means of subsistence, partic¬ 
ularly when the high price of flour is taken into 
consideration. The use of corn would he a sav¬ 
ing of more than one-half in expense, and as a 
healfihy nutriment, inconceivably superior. 
T recollect that the- article to which I allude, 
rather charged the absence of its use to the 
housewife; its preparation causing more care 
and labor than the fse of wheaten flour, of which 
they can make a single batch with a single ope- 
tion, lasting four or six days in the family—and I 
also recollect that a female correspondent took 
him very seriously to task for the charge and 
broom-sticked him well for the insinuation.— 
Since that time I have seriously set about the 
advocacy of a greater use of this article among 
families of my acquaintance, and I have become 
satisfied that the fault lies in a great measure in 
that quarter, notwithstanding all' the pains¬ 
taking and economy of the great mass of our 
good housewives. It interferes with habit, that 
iron shackle, that hinds mankind in bonds 
stronger than reason, or the laws of God and man. 
Habit and custom make slaves of us all, in 
one way or. other. The most prudent and eco¬ 
nomical housekeeper who has the charge of 
feeding the bipeds, will prefer to slice up her 
nice, white, well raised wheaten bread, of a 
morning, to dabbling and fussing in Indian 
meal fixings and common doings. It is human 
nature and the perversity of habit. Them’s my 
notions of the business, the best way I can fix 
it, broomstick or no broomstick. 
Guano for Grass Lands. — We have recently 
conv r ersed with two gentlemen — both practical 
men, and of critical observation — who informed 
us that they now have fields in grass, and 
yielding good crops, laid down some five, six 
and seven years ago, manuring them solelv 
with guano, and receiving little or no manur¬ 
ing since. If such were to he the general 
result, we might bring up our farms to a 
wonderful degree of fertility; because a third 
or half of the tillage land laid to grass with 
guano, and producing a fair crop for several 
years in succession, would enable us to appro- 
PLASTEE, NO REMEDY POE. SOHE.EL. 
“W. S. B.” in a former number, speaking of 
sorrel, says :—“We used tons of gypsum, with¬ 
out any effect in exterminating the evil.” Very 
true; he might as well use cords of dry wood 
to put out a fire. Sorrel, sour dock, sour grass, 
and all of that family, are the result, or product-, 
of a sour soil. On soils that produce sorrel, 
plaster is an injury, as the sulphuric acid in the 
plaster is adding more sourness where too much 
already exists. On such land use air-slaked 
lime to neutralize the acid in the soil, and I 
will defy sorrel to grow. It must die out for 
want of acid ; and white clover vrill then come 
in—as son-el and white clover require a soil 
Avhose component parts are alike, except sorrel 
requires the addition of acid. —L. V. Bierce, 
Akron, O., Dec. 14, 1855. 
More Good Stock. —During the past year, Ave 
more than once expressed the opinion that it 
Avould be advantageous to the farmers of this 
section, were they to devote more attention to 
improved stock and less to grain growing. And 
the fact that we have had occasion to notice the 
introduction of fine stock into several localities 
of Western NeAV York, within the past few 
months, proves that those most interested have 
arrived at the same conclusion. We now have 
occasion to chronicle another addition. Geo. C. 
Latta, Esq., of Charlotte, in this county, has 
recently purchased of Messrs. J. Simpson and 
M. Joness, of Bowmanville, 0. W., several head 
of superior Short-horn cattle; —also a number 
of Leicester, Cots Avoid and Teeswater sheep.— 
These animals are procured for breeding pur¬ 
poses, and we presume Mr. Latta (who thinks 
it is not profitable to grow wheat to feed worms,) 
will ere long sIioav his brother farmers that some 
things can he done as Avell as others, and per¬ 
haps better and more profitably. Messrs. Jas. 
H. Upton and Alva Benedict, of the same 
toAvn, have also recently purchased some im¬ 
proved stock for breeding purposes. 
WINTERING COLTS. 
When taken from the dam in fall, I consider 
the best food for them oat meal and sweet ap¬ 
ples, about three pints of the former and four 
quarts of the latter, three times a day. They 
eat both readily. Don’t know as it matters what 
kind of rack they eat from, but it should he 
pretty well elevated—about as high as they nat¬ 
urally hold their heads. : They should not stand 
on a fioor at all,—have a stable with earth foun¬ 
dation, and kept dry with straw, chaff or leaves. 
Let them run out during pleasant days, or in 
fact a portion of every day. Continue same 
feed through the winter, or two quarts of soaked 
oats three times a day in its place. Try this 
method and you will be pleased Avith the ap¬ 
pearance of your colts in the spring.—-A. B. C., 
Avon, JY. Y. 
Colts should eat from a manger, not from a 
rack, they should have good fine hay free from 
dust, they should he stabled in cold or stormy 
weather, and fed with sweet apples, thinly 
sliced, beginning with a small quantity and 
keep increasing till you get up to a half peck 
per day; they Avill soon learn to eat them with¬ 
out much cutting, and keep in as good condi¬ 
tion as when taken from the mare. If apples 
are not to be had, a quart of oats a day will an¬ 
swer. Colts may stand on the stable floor pro¬ 
vided their own dung lies in the stable during 
the winter, and is leveled off occasionally and 
some straAV spinlded on the top.— A. E., Cicero, 
n. y. _ 
In the management of spring colts, I Avould 
advise that in the fall they should he taken from 
their mothers after the frost has destroyed the 
fall feed, and kept in a stable out of sight and 
hearing of their mothers as much as possible.— 
Feed them tAVO quarts of milk from the cow 
once a day, give them bright timothy hay, a 
sufficient quantity, and a pint of oats a day 
through the winter, and let them out in a yard 
each day—they should not be tied in the stable, 
but should have their liberty. I consider it 
very injurious to keep them on the hare floor, 
as it strains their cords laying doAvn and get¬ 
ting up, and is the cause of spavins.—J. P 
Youlen, West Rupert, Vt., Dec., 1855. 
Premium Corn Crop. —The Woonsocket Patri¬ 
ot states that the Rhode Island Society for the 
Encouragement of Domestic Industry has award¬ 
ed to Mr. Thomas Andrews, of Slatersville, the 
•first premium on corn, for having produced the 
best yield in the State. His field contained 
316 rods of land, and the yield was 323 bushels 
of ears. The corn is of a new variety produced 
by Mr. Andrews, and is not only a great bearer, 
but of superior quality. Mr. Andrews last sea¬ 
son raised French white carrots at the rate of 
1,143 bushels to the acre, and French mangel- 
wurtzels at the rate of 1,300 bushels to the acre. 
DRAINING TILE. — ENQUIRY. 
Is drain pipe, or tile, made in Rochester or 
vicinity, or Buffalo or vicinity ? What is the 
cost for the different sizes ? and if they are sold 
by number, Avhat is the length and weight ? 
Also, are there machines for manufacturing 
them ? if so, what is the cost and where are 
they to be obtained ? Parties having the above 
articles for sale, would not be the losers by ad¬ 
vertising freely, and especially in the “Rural,” 
Avhich has become so necessary to the farming 
community.—J. C. G., Jamestown, JY. Y. 
Remarks. — We believe that drain tile is 
made and on sale in the places above referred 
to, and many others. Manufacturers and deal¬ 
ers might secure profitable results by acting up¬ 
on our correspondent’s suggestion. —Eds. 
HOG-MANURE VS. WIRE WORMS. 
Winter Plowing. —Occasionally a Avinter sea¬ 
son occurs so open as to admit of plowing. We 
once saw plows in active operation in Ontario 
county during February, and the present season 
considerable plowing was done in some locali¬ 
ties during the month of December. When such 
seasons occur it is well, on many soils, to take 
advantage of the opportunity, and prepare the 
land for spring crops. The frosts of winter 
Avhich occur subsequent to the plowing, do much 
towards disintegrating and mellowing the soil. 
It has been stated in the Rural that hog- 
manure was a preventive of the wire Avorm; I 
will give you a little of my experience in its 
use for the past two years. 
In the spring of 1854, as early as the frost 
would allow, I plowed a piece of sward land, 
soil sand, gravel, and loam in nearly equal parts, 
and planted the same to potatoes which grew 
finely, promising a good crop. Such it would 
have been but for the wire Avorms, of which 
there were from twenty to thirty in a hill, and 
they eat into many of the potatoes to the centre. 
The next spring, I plowed the same piece of 
ground, harrowed it once, covered one-half with 
a thin coating of hog-manure and the remainder 
with that from the barn yard. Harrowed the 
second time, and sowed on barley, two bushels 
per acre, and after harrowing in seeded to clo¬ 
ver and Timothy seed. 
The crop showed greatly in favor of the hog- 
manure—the part to which it was applied pro¬ 
duced a heavy' crop—as it was free from the 
.wire worm—the remainder of the field was 
badly eaten, and the yield of barley was one- 
half less. I could perceive no difference in the 
growth of the grass seed, both being alike. So 
much for my experiment. s. p. s. 
Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y., 1855. 
Deferred. —We are compelled to defer seve¬ 
ral able articles from Special Contributors and 
Correspondents, intended for this number.— 
Also, many brief notes and items relative to 
Agricultural affairs and transpirings—the most 
important of which will appear in future num¬ 
bers. Meantime, we trust correspondents Avill 
continue their favors, all which we hope to give 
proper attention. 
HUGE SQUASHES, 
Are those I raised this year, of the French 
yelloAV fleshed variety, one of Avhich measures 
six feet seven inches in circumference, and 
weighs 117J^ lbs. If Messrs. Briggs or Collins 
can beat that, let us hear from them again.— 
J. G. W., Wilson, JY. Y. 
N orthern Wisconsin. —A correspondent Avho 
has recently taken a trip to Clark Co. and the 
Pine country around La Crosse, speaks very fa- 
A r orably of the agricultural capabilities of the 
“hard-wood land” in that section, and com¬ 
mends it as a healthy locality, at present rather 
“out of the world,” but to he “in toAvn” when 
it gets a railroad. The letter is too long for our 
crowded columns. 
Milk and Butter. —Four quarts of milk in 
October, and six quarts in June, will make a 
pound of butter, in case you procure the right 
kind of stock. 
To this statement the N. E. Farmer says :— 
“We do not believe that any stock exists, the 
cows of which will yield milk that will produce 
a pound of butter from four quarts, or even six 
quarts, as a general thing. If these products 
are only occasional, then they should he stated 
as exceptions to the general rule. This is one 
of those agricultural flams which bring discredit 
upon the exertions of all who .are laboring to 
advance its interests.” 
Just our opinion, exactly, Bro. Brown. 
Industrial Museum. — W e learn that the Ben¬ 
ton Co. (Minnesota) Ag. Society, is arranging a 
Cabinet or Museum, wherein to deposit speci¬ 
mens of the various grains and other products 
of the Territory. An excellent idea, and wor¬ 
thy of imitation by Societies in other localities 
—in old as Avell as neAV sections of the country. 
Wood for the Year.— During the winter, and 
while the sleighing is good, a year’s supply of 
Avood should he hauled, saAved and split, and 
piled away snugly for future use. None but a 
slack and uneconomical farmer will he under 
the necessity of suspending his ordinary work 
in summer for the purpose of supplying the 
house with fueL 
Cashmere Goats. —It is stated that Dr. Davis, 
of S. C., has recently sold 15 three-fourth bred 
Cashmere kids, seven months old, and a two 
years’ old pure bred buck, to a gentleman in 
Tennessee, for $4,000—the buck for $1,000, and 
the ewes at $200 each. 
